Academic Stakeholders: Are you sick of a Kafkaesque bureaucracy dis-incentivising serious academic work? Tired of a "world-class education" rhetoric backed up only by inadequate services (e.g., own-program-cannibalising timetabling conflicts, perennially failing IT/lecture-recording, and unsafe/substandard venues)? Had enough of superficial and inferior changes to learning management systems whose procurements lack academic scrutiny? Overwhelmed by unnecessary administrative workload creep and the centralisation of essential support? Do you want a real voice in co-designing and lifting up ANU's academic future?
We need skin in the game and integrity on the Academic Board: Leaders who still run with you in the trenches; not pseudo-academic self-promoters pontificating over your fate.
I am a full-time, teaching-and-research staff at the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵResearch School of Economics. Outside, I serve as elected president of the Australasian Macroeconomics Society, the largest and oldest organisation of macroeconomists and policy-stakeholders in this region.
Here, I will listen and help voice your ideas, ask difficult questions, and strive for transparent outcomes that balance student, academic- and professional-staff welfare. Alongside the ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵGovernance Project, I will play my part in strengthening the Academic Board, ensuring an accountable ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵLeadership that prizes you, ANU's most important asset.
